mispublicize

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ publicize

Verb

mispublicize (third-person singular simple present mispublicizes, present participle mispublicizing, simple past and past participle mispublicized)

1. To publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.
   • 1954, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, page 633:

     The whole problem of cosmetic surgery has in the past had a rather unfavorable light cast upon it because it has been misused and mispublicized.

   • 1974, Eugene Litwak, Cheryl Elise Mickelson, Henry Joseph Meyer, School, Family, and Neighborhood, page 249:

     Without careful assessment of impact and modification of communications, it is quite possible through mass media to mispublicize or overpublicize.

   • 1984, Association for Corporate Growth, Intergrowth, page 45:

     It's quite true that Korea has been mispublicized in the United States especially.

   • 2018, Allison Hepler, McCarthyism in the Suburbs, page 162:

     At the school board's September 19 meeting, James Detwiler claimed that the board's 1954 decision to no longer contribute to the Jeanes Library has been “mispublicized” all these years. It had nothing to do with Knowles's refusual to sign a Loyalty Oath, he said, not at all.